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Recent Examples of outwardly
Suarez has outwardly become more conservative during his tenure, including a visit to the southern border in early 2024.
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Miami Herald, 10 Dec. 2025
Quiet cracking has recently been used to describe employees who outwardly appear to be present but are actually fracturing inside, feeling stretched thin and withdrawing energy from the work that once animated them.
—Jon Rosemberg, Fortune, 9 Dec. 2025
These are huge scale productions completed for under $10 million, completely independent and outwardly audacious.
—David Canfield, HollywoodReporter, 24 Nov. 2025
Jana is not outwardly calling for a management change and White may even be the best person to lead a standalone CooperSurgical business.
—Kenneth Squire, CNBC, 15 Nov. 2025
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Miami Herald, 10 Dec. 2025
Quiet cracking has recently been used to describe employees who outwardly appear to be present but are actually fracturing inside, feeling stretched thin and withdrawing energy from the work that once animated them.
—Jon Rosemberg, Fortune, 9 Dec. 2025
These are huge scale productions completed for under $10 million, completely independent and outwardly audacious.
—David Canfield, HollywoodReporter, 24 Nov. 2025
Jana is not outwardly calling for a management change and White may even be the best person to lead a standalone CooperSurgical business.
—Kenneth Squire, CNBC, 15 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for outwardly
Adverb
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There are incredible upsides to success that are very obvious, but there also comes a payoff in not only a lack of privacy, but sometimes in real physical threats — not only externally but internally.—
Jem Aswad,
Variety,
6 Nov. 2025
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Ravagli underscored that each phase of the project has been audited externally and received the appropriate certifications.—
Luisa Zargani,
Footwear News,
5 Nov. 2025
Adverb
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Carson later recalled walking into the kitchen the next morning to see his father visibly shaken at the dining room table.—
Nasha Smith,
PEOPLE,
9 Jan. 2026
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Host Jimmy Fallon visibly cringed in response.—
Emlyn Travis,
Entertainment Weekly,
9 Jan. 2026
Adverb
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As usual, Coon thrives in ambiguity, layering a seemingly straightforward woman with depth.—
Shania Russell,
Entertainment Weekly,
9 Jan. 2026
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Good briefly put the vehicle in reverse, then shifted into drive and hit the gas, with the wheels seemingly turned to the right instead of directly ahead toward Ross.—
Allison Gordon,
CNN Money,
9 Jan. 2026
Adverb
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Meanwhile, prosecutors earlier this year charged three other San Diego-area CBP officers in a similar but apparently unrelated case.—
Alex Riggins,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
8 Nov. 2025
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The surgery addressed the impingement, but Ball is still apparently affected enough by it to be sidelined in game action for the better part of the last week.—
Roderick Boone,
Charlotte Observer,
7 Nov. 2025
Adverb
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The ending in del Toro’s Frankenstein is evidently one of bittersweet hope.—
Yasmeen Hamadeh,
PEOPLE,
7 Nov. 2025
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Now, the 30-year-old lefty will hope some other team out there sees him as more of a roster hopeful than the Orioles evidently did.—
Jackson Roberts,
MSNBC Newsweek,
7 Nov. 2025
Adverb
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But for now, the people holding the guns and ostensibly running the country are not her supporters, but Nicolás Maduro's.—
Duarte Dias,
CBS News,
5 Jan. 2026
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Patience is ostensibly a requirement for 21st century Dolphins fans, and more again will be needed.—
Barry Jackson,
Miami Herald,
5 Jan. 2026
Adverb
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The most famous, perhaps, was of lung cancer patient David Prueitt, who swallowed a supposedly lethal dose of medication and awoke three days later.—
Teri Sforza,
Oc Register,
9 Jan. 2026
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But as Robby is (supposedly) on his way out, some fresh faces are navigating their very first day in the fray of the Pitt.—
Megan McCluskey,
Time,
8 Jan. 2026
Adverb
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From the perspective of a world of increasingly unimaginable maldistribution of resources, cascading ecological collapse, a genocide cheered on by a putatively liberal order, both are barbarisms.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
7 Nov. 2025
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“Outwardly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/outwardly. Accessed 10 Jan. 2026.
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